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COLLECTIONS RECEIVED. 



The thanks of the Imperial Bureau of Entomology are due to the following 

 gentlemen, who have kindly presented collections of insects (received between 1st 

 January and 31st March, 1915) : — 



Mr. T. J. Anderson, Government Entomologist :— 2 Pangonia, 1 Haematopota, 

 36 other Diptera, 10 Hymenoptera, 2 Coleoptera, 37 Lepidoptera, 1 Caddis-fly, and 

 10 Rhynchota ; from British East Africa. 



Mr. E. Ballard, Government Entomologist : — 15 Diptera, 7 Coleoptera, and 9 

 Lepidoptera ; from Coimbatore, South India. 



Mr. 0. Barker Benfield : — 1 Longicorn beetle ; from Accra, Gold Coast. 



Mr. G. E. Bodkin, Government Economic Biologist :— 1 Chrysops, 2 Dichelacera, 

 5 Tabanus, 13 other Diptera, 11 Ants, 209 other Hymenoptera, 13 Coleoptera, 1 Moth 

 and its pupa case, 2 other Lepidoptera, 25 Anoplura, 339 Termites, 187 Mallophaga, 

 13 Rhynchota, 7 Orthoptera, 2 Centipedes, 8 Millipedes, about 100 Mites, 1 Spider, 

 1 Scorpion, and 2 tubes of Worms ; from British Guiana. 



Mr. E. C. Chubb, Curator of the Durban Museum : — 96 Culicidae, 1 Haematopota, 

 33 Tahanns, 7 Stomoxys, 2 Oestrid larvae, 3 other Diptera, and 90 Rhynchota ; from 

 South Africa. 



Dr. J. Burton Cleland, Principal Microbiologist, New South Wales : — 46 Tabanidae ; 

 from Austraha. 



Mr. d'Emmerez de Charmoy, Government Entomologist : — 125 imagines, 4 pupae, 

 and 20 larvae of Moth pests, with examples of damage done by them ; from Mauritius. 



Mr. G. levers Cree : — 2 imagines, 2 pupae, and 1 larva of the Dynastid beetle 

 Heteronychus licas, Klug, injuring sugar-cane ; from Zululand. 



Dr. J. B. Davey, M.O. : — 140 Culicidae, 6 Chrysops, 1 Haematopota, 16 Tabanus, 

 1 Cordylobia, 1 Hippoboscid, 223 other Diptera, 83 Hymenoptera, 40 Coleoptera, 38 

 Lepidoptera, 1 Caddis-fly, 2 Planipennia, 29 Rhynchota, and 6 Orthoptera ; from 

 Zomba, Nyasaland. 



The Director of Agriculture, Cyprus : — 2 vine Thrips {Cryptothrips brevicolUs, 

 Bagn., sp. n.) ; from Cyprus. 



Division of Entomology, Pretoria : — 54 Diptera, 141 Coleoptera, and examples of 

 damage done to beans by beetles, 2 Chrysopa, 38 Rhynchota, and 23 Orthoptera ; 

 from the Transvaal. 



Mr. R. A. F. Eminson : — A series of Hymenopterous parasites of Glossina morsitans, 

 viz., the Mutillid, Mutilla glossinae, Turn., sp. n., and the Chalcidoids, Stomatoceras 

 m^icans, Waterst., sp. n., and Syntomosphyrum glossinae, Waterst., sp. n. ; from 

 Northern Rhodesia. 



Mr. E. Ernest Green : — 6 species of named Coccidae. 



Mr. Gerald F. Hill, Government Entomologist : — 8 Tabanus, 2 larvae and 2 pupae 

 of Dacus, 221 other Diptera, 46 Siphonaptera, about 500 Ants and 32 other Hymenop- 

 tera, 26 Coleoptera, 6 Lepidoptera, 32 Trichoptera, about 50 Mallophaga, 15 species 

 of Coccidae, 53 other Rhynchota, 15 Orthoptera, 5 Odonata, 9 Thysanura, 1 Spider, 

 and 6 Centipedes ; from the Northern Territory, Australia. 



